Wes Anderson’s cinematographer describes shooting nine iconic Wes Anderson-y scenes. Some interesting nuggets: He says Disney executives wanted to cut the establishing montage from Rushmore. Wes Anderson arranged all the hair on the sink in Richie’s suicide attempt scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. They filmed in different aspect ratios to set the era in The Grand Budapest Hotel. [Vulture]

JUICY: in a teaser for a Vanity Fair piece framed as a Battle of the Museums (MoMA and the Met), Glenn Lowry’s rumored to be heading to Sotheby’s from MoMA. MoMA denies rumors saying he just signed a new contract. The rest is filled with words like “blood” and “money”, and a weirdly-hyped section about MoMA’s decision whether to open its garden to the public after the next renovation. ? The piece hits stands January 13th. [Vanity Fair]

Reactive cartoons poured forth on social media yesterday in response to the shooting of colleagues from Charlie Hebdo. Intentions may have been good, but it’s a little disturbing that the Internet only ever always speeds up after a tragedy. Charlie Hebdo routinely caricatured religious figureheads like the prophet Muhammed; based on previous attacks, the press assumes that these prompted the murders. [Mashable]

Christian Viveros-Faune on Tania Bruguera’s “Tatlin’s Whisper” for artnet News. Bruguera was arrested in Cuba last Tuesday in an attempt to restage the performance first launched in 2009 for the Havana biennial in which she offered people one minute free of censorship and a loud speaker. She was subsequently released and rearrested twice and is now in custody. [Artnet News]

Christian Viveros-Faune on Sarah Thornton’s 33 Artists in 3 Acts. The book gets a thumbs down for being too nice to its subjects. That’s disappointing. 7 Days in the Art World was pretty great relative to what’s being described here. We’ll be reading the book ourselves and report back. [The Village Voice]

Does cynicism forego people’s ability to understand Thomas Hirschhorn’s housing project monuments/philosophically oriented community centers? A Blade of Grass has sourced a series of responses to our Gramsci Monument follow-up piece last year, including commentary from Anna Dezeuze, art historian and author of a book on Hirschhorn’s work; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator at El Museo del Barrio; and Lex Brown, who taught and worked at the monument. Thrilled to have this conversation continued. [A Blade of Grass]

In case you missed it, bloggers have been jumping on Russell Crowe after he advised female actors over 40 to seek age-appropriate roles in order to find more work. That’s assuming that lots of those roles exist, but the desire for them is not totally ageist. Meryl Streep agrees. [Vanity Fair]

AFC’s offices are a buzz this morning, as art news just keeps pouring in!

Jerry Saltz has written a letter to MoMA’s Trustees imploring them not to proceed with Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design, which he believes won’t be conducive to viewing art. Good luck with that Jerry. This isn’t a problem with the architects, but with their clients. [Vulture]

It looks like the Baltimore Museum of Art has retrieved its stolen Renoir from Baltimore resident Marcia Fuqua, who’d bought the painting at a flea market for $7. Since the work was stolen, the court ruled that Fuqua doesn’t have a right to it. The work was estimated in value at between $75,000-$100,000. [TAN]

Jeffrey Deitch gets a profile in New York Magazine, which washes over curator Paul Schimmel’s dismissal in favor of a creating an image of a “swashbuckling” badboy whose sensational shows were too New York for LA to handle. This is in part true, since L.A. residents didn’t seem to want a celebrity focus in their museums. But Deitch was never supposed to be the museum’s curator, he was its director, and he failed in that department when he lost the support of the board and didn’t raise the necessary funds. He’s a better curator, he’s going back to that, and is looking into space in Red Hook and the so-called SuperPier on the Hudson at 14th Street. [Vulture]

Looks like Occupy may be re-emerging? After Anonymous holds a Bush protest today at Grand Central the Whitney Museum will host an “officially sanctioned” Occupy network at the museum tomorrow night. [twitter]

Former New York Times Editor Bill Keller is upsetting people again. This time, following his wife’s lead in The Guardian, he ruminates on whether Lisa Bonchek Adams, a cancer patient suffering from 4th stage breast cancer, tweets too much. Can’t wait for the New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan to weigh in on this one. [The New York Times]

The Globe and Mail’s Artists of the Year are predictably conservative. Painter Kim Dorland is dubbed “artist of the wild”, and why is Vince Gilligan, an American, the recipient of awards given to Canadians? [The Globe and Mail]

The BBC may be bringing outside TV to North Korea. A senior diplomatic Brit is quoted as saying “I have always believed what brought down the Berlin Wall was not highbrow diplomacy but Dallas and Dynasty.” [TIME]

Artist, filmmaker, and now generally popular person Steve McQueen took home the Golden Globe for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave at last night’s ceremony. [Gawker]

In case you missed it last week, Amanda Hess really stirred the pot with her Pacific Standard cover story “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet.” She details death threats that have come her way for writing frankly about sex, and notes statistics that show that this kind of abuse happens far more often to women than men. Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat responds and suggests that ridding the Internet of male-on-female comment wars is “ultimately a task for men” and involves finding “a more compelling vision of masculine goals,” neither of which is going to help out female writers who’re dealing with trolls right this second. [The New York Times]

The people who dress as blow-up dolls are coming out, and have done so through the documentary “Secrets of the Living Dolls”. We can’t watch the whole thing because we’re not in the area, but maybe our UK readers will have more luck with it. [laughing squid]

And because we’re constantly thinking about butt plugs in preparation for our upcoming benefit auction, I found the “baby Jesus butt plug” who may have been birthed by an alien. [The Slaughter House]

Morning folks. It’s official: MoMA will demolish the Folk Art Museum in order to make way for the redesign.
The new building will focus heavily on creating an illusion of accessibility. Whether that’s gonna happen through bulldozing our neighborhood Folk Art Museum to make way for a glass museum is just one of many questions critics are asking.

MoMA says that preserving the museum would be “simply impossible” for its latest redesign. (Here’s hoping this one’s the winner! Ha, ha, ha.) MoMA plans to start construction this summer. [New York Times]

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger thinks the museum is making a “fatal mistake”, and he’s appalled by MoMA’s indifference. “A city that allows such a work to disappear after barely a dozen years is a city with a flawed architectural heart,” he writes. “A large cultural institution that cannot find a suitable use for such a building is an institution with a flawed architectural imagination.” [Vanity Fair]

Justin Davidson suspects that even architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro were hesitant about the move, since they’re basically replaced the Folk Art Museum’s space with a big open hole. “The client is bent on art-world domination; the architects seem halfhearted.” [Vulture]

Jerry Saltz still doesn’t see enough space to house MoMA’s permanent collection, and in its place, a lot of vapid blue chip space and nonsense about accessibility. Time to give up on MoMA. [Vulture]

Oh my God. CBC reports that six bodies have been found in Russian bomb-rigged cars; all of the bodies had been shot ahead of time. Reporters are linking it to the Sochi Olympics but no motive’s been found yet. [CBC]

Russian journalist Masha Gessen has been making the rounds promoting her new book about Pussy Riot. Gessen, one of Putin’s most outspoken critics, has just fled Russia with her wife and children to avoid the anti-gay laws there. [NPR]

After Time Out Chicago axed their full-time art critic, a flurry of criticism arose about how many full-time art critics are actually out there, and whether freelance critics count. Gallerist NY adds to this debate just by simply stating what critic Deborah Solomon stated on WNYC this week, that there are fewer than ten full-time art critics writing for newspapers. Yes, we know this, but many freelancers out there are upset that “full-time art critic” doesn’t refer to online publications or those who write for several. It’s an issue of legitimacy in the eyes of changing media. For that debate, just take a look at the comments section to this piece. [Gallerist NY]

Greg Allen is no fan of Architecture Firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Hirschhorn design, “The Bubble”. Liz Diller wonders if the museum could be an agent for cultural diplomacy and proceeds to present a structure designed to house expensive events like TED, the WEF, and CFR fora. Why ask the question, if the purpose of the venue won’t ever answer the question. [Greg.org]

Fewer couples are having kids in the states, but they’re making way for more puppies. U-S-A! [The Atlantic]

Bushwick Open Studios starts next week, and runs from May 31st through June 2nd. Here’s the map of the 587 studios listed so far. [Arts in Bushwick]

Hennessy Youngman has come out with his second lo-fi mix this year, CVS Bangers Vol. 2. Listen to the mellow 80s tracks you’d hear while filling your cart up with Mac ‘n’ Cheez Whiz, interrupted by a blaring airhorn, then Hennessy-designed ads, then someone saying “Obama”. Just Obama. [Soundcloud via Twitter]

The Asia Society has hired a new President, Josette Sheeran, vice chair of the World Economic Forum. [The Wall Street Journal]

The Met just appointed a new curator to its Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters, C. Griffith Mann, since the Cleveland Museum of Art’s chief curator. He’ll be bumping up current curator Peter Barnet to senior curator of that department. [Cleveland.com]